Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 141 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780817392857
Series Statement:
Atlantic crossings
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Conquest of the Americas -- Bartolomé de las Casas -- Columbus -- Seville, March 31, 1493 -- To the Indies, 1502 -- The New Dominican -- Bishop of Chiapa -- The Great Debate of 1550 -- The Everlasting Advocate -- Las Casas and the African Slave Trade -- The Inquisition Takes on Las Casas -- Las Casas and the Legacy of Human Rights -- Conclusion -- The Documents -- I. The "New" World -- Document 1: "At two hours after midnight the land appeared": Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 -- Document 2: "Everyone was amazed to catch sight of . . . things they had never dreamed or heard": History of the Indies, 1493 -- II: The Black Legend -- Document 3: "The Spaniards were guilty of the very same thing they accused the Indians of ": History of the Indies, ca. 1503-1509 -- Document 4: "There I saw such great cruelties": An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, 1542 -- Document 5: "And so he had them burned alive": An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, ca. 1540s -- Document 6: "My one motive in dictating this book": Prologue to History of the Indies, 1552 -- III: Slavery and the New Laws -- Document 7: "Enslavement of blacks was every bit as unjust as that of the Indians": History of the Indies, ca. 1550-1560 -- Document 8: "By what right and with what justice?": History of the Indies, 1511 -- Document 9: "The preservation . . . of the Indians, has always been the primary purpose of our policy": New Laws of 1542, Council of the Indies -- Document 10: "For everyone to accept our faith, he or she must have . . . a clear liberty of choice": Twenty Reasons against the Encomienda, 1552 -- IV: The Theory and Practice of Peaceful Evangelization.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817359690
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bartolomé de las Casas and the defense of Amerindian rights Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2020 ISBN 9780817359690
Language:
English
Keywords:
Casas, Bartolomé de las 1484-1566
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Lateinamerika
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Eroberung
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Indianer
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Menschenrecht
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